02 Mar 3D PDF – What is the “3D content has been disabled” message

One question that new users often have is why do they see a “3D content has been disabled” warning message when opening a 3D PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Back in October of 2015, Adobe changed their default behavior when activating 3D content in a PDF file. Users are now required to respond to a prompt when activating a 3D scene. Fortunately, they also provided a Preference setting to control this behavior.

Enable playing of 3D content in one PDF

The first time that you open a PDF with 3D content, you will see a yellow bar at the top with the message:

To enable 3D content in the current document:

Click the Options button and then select an appropriate option:

Trust this document one time only

Trust this document always

Enable playing of 3D content for all PDF’s

We recommend that if you use 3D PDF, you permanently enable 3D content. To enable 3D content permanently: